How to Bake Blueberry Burst Muffins
This recipe for Blueberry Burst Muffins will be a truly delicious surprise. When you taste your first bite, it will be ever-so-tasty, and when you take the next bite, a little pocket of juicy, sweet blueberries will burst upon your taste buds, leaving you looking for more. How to Bake Blueberry Burst Muffins: When I was a child, there was nothing like coming home from school and walking into the kitchen filled with the aroma of my...
Web Chef Review: Ontario Saskatoon Berries at Harvest Barn Country Markets
This is the first time I’ve seen Ontario Saskatoon Berries at Harvest Barn Country Markets! It’s also the first time I have tasted these delicious, plump berries. We have experimented with them in tarts, straight from the box and mom included some of them in her strawberry freezer jam, so far. We quite enjoy the taste. Find out about this product on this webisode of What I Say About Food: Saskatoon berries are named after...
How to Cook Breakfast Breakthrough Oatmeal + Video
This recipe for How to Cook Breakfast Breakthrough Oatmeal is an example of a quick, invigorating, healthy breakfast that will keep you satisfied until lunch time. We already know that breakfast is the most important meal of the day, so give this recipe a try. How to Cook Breakfast Breakthrough Oatmeal: This stick-to-your-bones recipe will get you through until lunch. Start your day off right. Especially for “starving”...
7 Tips for Flakier Scones: How to Bake Flaky Scones
Scones & biscuits are simple & quick to make with delicious results. This Scottish treat is light, fluffy & flaky goodness ensues when you follow a few tips for baking scones below… Tips for Baking Scones: Taking it easy when kneading the scone dough will yield flaky scones. Cutting in the shortening with a pastry blender or 2 knives until the mixture is the consistency of coarse cornmeal, instead of touching the...
How to Make Hot Berry Sauce
Hot Berry Sauce is lovely for dessert over vanilla ice cream, biscuits, pancakes, pound cake or cornbread. It’s so versatile & easy to make using any choice of berries you have on hand or prefer. How to Make Hot Berry Sauce: My recipe yields about 2 cups of berry sauce. Type: Sauce Recipe Serve with: vanilla ice cream, biscuits, pancakes, cheesecake, pound cake or cornbread Prep Time: 5 min Cook Time: 8 – 10 min...
How to Make Granola: National Oatmeal Day
National Oatmeal Day is here, and oatmeal isn’t just for breakfast… It’s versatile as lunch, used in breads & other baking, as well as snacks and the like. Oatmeal Nutrition: When it comes to nutritional value, oats have it. This is especially so for fiber in oatmeal. Half is insoluble, which helps digestion, and the other half is soluble, which lowers cholesterol. All oats are whole grain. Types of Oatmeal: Oats...
How to Bake Great Oatmeal Muffins: Oatmeal Muffin Day
Oatmeal Muffin Day deserves a really great recipe that you can use over & over again, even making additions for more flair. That’s just what I’m giving you on such a day as this to enjoy with your family for years to come. Oatmeal muffins are not only delicious, but the oatmeal adds a healthy grain. If desired, any complimentary flavorful spices or fruit can be added as well, such as diced apples, chopped apricots,...
The Satisfaction of Growing Your Own Fruit at Home
We have a most beautiful and productive garden this year… Aside from the cucumbers, tomatoes, beans, squash, pumpkin, peppers, lettuce and other amazing vegetables and herbs… We have grapes, figs, blackberries, blueberries, raspberries, kiwi, gooseberries, rhubarb, plums, apples…watermelon even! Whenever I see berry plants for sale, I get excitement in my belly. I just love berries. There’s nothing like going...
How to Bake Blueberry Spelt Muffins
Well, the past few weeks have been hectic, to say the least. I am finding myself with less and less time to make breakfast and organize in the morning, not to mention that winter can knock it out of you, physically speaking. So, I am planning ahead and baking muffins that are quick to heat up with butter, and easy to pack or grab on the run. Perfect for helping me with snacks. The spelt flour is a beautiful addition to this recipe to...
How to Brew Wild Blueberry Tea Bags from P.E.I.
If you didn’t know, I also coach sports: softball/baseball, track & field, gymnastics, conditioning, etc! One of my pitchers, Larissa Rowdon, had an amazing season, helped her team win a spot in Nationals in Prince Edward Island, Canada after a stellar show in Provincials. Her and her awesome parents were so sweet and brought me home a gift from Nationals…a Prince Edward Island t-shirt, which I love; and since they too...
How to Cook a Balsamic Reduction Sauce: Upscale Superbowl Treats
This is Day Eight of our One Month Grocery Shopping Strike! It’s also SuperBowl today… In my earlier post, I outlined my Lavender Lamb Loin Chops I’ll be grilling today. To accompany the chops, I have made a Blueberry Balsamic Reduction Sauce – simply because lamb isn’t my favorite meat and it will go beautifully with it and cover up the flavor I am not crazy about in lamb. To make a basic balsamic reduction sauce,...
One Month Grocery Shopping Strike: Day 8 – SuperBowl XLV
This is Day Eight of our One Month Grocery Shopping Strike! It’s also SuperBowl! That’s right! We love football and we especially love the tailgating food we get to create and eat for this special game. We are still doing well and eating deliciously on day 8 of our grocery shopping strike. We are doing “upscale” SuperBowl treats. For brunch we had creamed scrambled eggs on top of toasted Italian flax seed bread...
Healthy School Lunches – Be Ready for Back to School
Instead of sending your child through the cafeteria line with a $10 bill each day for school, get into the trend of packing them a healthy lunch. Healthy is in right now, as is budgeting. So, your child will not be the only one brown bagging or bento box-ing lunch this year! Keeping your kids healthy should be of paramount importance to you and here’s how you can improve their lunches…the easy way! Think of food in 6...
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